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Stratolaunch is prepping for its maiden flight next year, taking baby steps along the way. Here we are in March and while it still hasn’t taken to the skies, the world’s largest airplane is certainly coming along. In a new video, the Stratolaunch can be seen taxiing down a runway at 46 miles per hour, impressive […]

Last week, SpaceX successfully launched its largest rocket, the Falcon Heavy, to much fanfare. Perhaps overshadowing the launch was Elon Musk’s idea to also release a Tesla Roadster into space, which managed exceed Mars’ orbit and continue on into the Asteroid Belt. The launch represents a historic moment for not only private space exploration but […]

A Qantas plane recently made history by becoming the first in the world to be partly powered by mustard seeds. The U.S.-Australia biofuel flight took off from Los Angeles and landed in Melbourne after a 15-hour trip. Qantas estimated that the use of biofuel on this flight reduced emissions by 7 percent The Boeing Dreamliner […]

For the past several years, inventors have been coming up with some incredible flying car designs. But the search for a viable flying car — one that doesn’t look too silly — is still on. Meanwhile, French inventor Franky Zapata has revealed a “Segway of the sky” — the Zapata Ezfly hoverboard. Zapata amazed the […]

The static fire test for SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Rocket went swimmingly last week so now it appears all systems are go for an official launch date. Finally! Aiming for first flight of Falcon Heavy on Feb 6 from Apollo launchpad 39A at Cape Kennedy. Easy viewing from the public causeway. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January […]

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully finished nine months of testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. In order to get it ready for space, the JWST was placed inside a giant cryogenic vacuum chamber and exposed to extremely cold temperatures, to simulate the conditions it will eventually experience. As you can see […]

Blue Origin has released a new video showing off its next-generation rocket engine igniting, and it looks pretty dang sweet. The BE-4 being tested, has been in development for around 7 years and has largely remained a mystery up until now, ever since Blue Origin has been publishing more and more updates in regards to […]

The Falcon Heavy Rocket, which currently has a tentative launch date of sometime in January, has been somewhat of a mystery until recently. Elon Musk tweeted out images of a nearly fully-assembled Falcon Heavy Rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the best look we’ve got of the rocket up to this point. The Falcon Heavy is […]

In 2013, China landed a rover called Yutu on the moon. Since then, there have been no manned or unmanned moon landings. But India is soon going to join the ranks of the moon landers The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) plans to land its very first lunar rover by the end of March 2018. […]

The Concorde, which was considered one of the safest planes in the world, was permanently grounded three years after the crash of Air France Flight 4590 in July 2000, in which all passengers and crew were killed. A successor to the Concorde may take to the skies once again after more than a decade! The […]

US startup Rocket Lab aims to carry out its second launch of the company’s experimental Electron Rocket sometime in the next week or so. The plan is to send the rocket into orbit, and if successful, will prove the Electron Rocket is prepared to eventually send small commercial payloads to orbit in the future. There’s […]

Ever wondered how the world’s super-rich fly? If Emirates’s new first class suites on its 777 are any indication, it might be even better than you could imagine. Why’s that you ask? These @Emirates virtual windows are INSANE. Look how sharp this is! Holy friggin crap. pic.twitter.com/0U6hDcBtit — Zach Honig (@ZachHonig) December 1, 2017 The […]

As a society, we sometimes take flying for granted as it has become such a normal and routine activity for many people. However, every now and then the wonders of commercial aviation have their moment in the spotlight, as evidenced by a recent viral video a pilot shared of his descent into Queenstown, New Zealand. […]

World View, out of Arizona, recently completed the longest test flight of its high-altitude balloon, after it was able to successfully stay airborne for five days. Called the stratollite, the ballon aims to carry Earth-observing instruments to the upper edges of the atmosphere and will eventually fly for months at a time. Each stratollite balloon […]

Private spaceflight company Stratolaunch Systems brought the world’s largest airplane (by wingspan) out of its hangar for the first time recently. Called the Stratolaunch, the massive aircraft successfully tested out all six of its Pratt and Whitney turbofan engines, each weighing 8,940 lbs. (4,000 kg), at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Here are some […]

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was in service for 20 years, 13 of which it spent orbiting the Saturn system. After successfully completing its two missions, the spacecraft was recently retired by being sent to its demise by way of diving into Saturn’s atmosphere and tearing apart. Cassini’s legacy will certainly live on as it gave us […]

Three crew members recently departed the International Space Station, and as a result three new astronauts are being sent up to take their place. Six hours after launch, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, will reach the ISS which will be their home for the next five […]

Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX has completed testing on all three of the Falcon Heavy rocket’s first stage cores. Now, the plan is to hopefully launch the rocket for the first time in November. In a recent tweet, Musk showed off a video of a static test of one of the Falcon Heavy cores. […]

The dream of a hypersonic flight five times faster than the speed of sound came a step closer to reality with a successful experimental flight designated as ‘HIFiRE 4’ at the Woomera test range in South Australia. Hypersonic is considered to be above Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound) while supersonic is merely above Mach […]

If you love camping and spending holidays amid the pleasure of nature in fancy tents and classy tree houses, you will definitely admire this “innovative” new holiday rental home in Stirling, Scotland. This unusual holiday home is basically a retired Royal Navy search-and-rescue helicopter which has been transformed into a luxurious and unique hotel. Stirling […]